AFP reports: An international team of computer hackers and stock traders was charged with pocketing more than $US100 million ($A138 million) in illicit profits based on stolen market-moving financial information, US officials announced Tuesday. The Department of Justice charged nine people in a criminal conspiracy with making more than $US30 million ($A41.43 million) in illegal…
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Carphone Warehouse coughs to MEGA data breach hitting up to 2.4 MEELLION customers (Update2)
Kelly Fiveash reports: Carphone Warehouse has taken three days to go public about a serious data breach affecting nearly 2.5 million customers – with the confession that up to 90,000 subscribers may have had their credit card info ransacked. The company said in a statement on Saturday afternoon that it had first discovered its systems…
Man affiliated with Anonymous #OpAustralia returns to court August 11th
DataBreaches.net has previously reported on the case of Mathew Hutchison, a young Australian who found himself on the wrong side of the law for attempting to redirect the Indonesian faction of Anonymous away from businesses and not-for-profits in Australia. Hutchison ran afoul of Australian law because videos that he uploaded to YouTube in the name of #OpAustralia and chats…
Hundreds of Millions of Android Smartphones hit with ‘Certifi-gate’ Security Breach
According to the researchers at security firm Check Point, “Hundreds of millions of Android smartphones may be at risk from a security flaw that allows hackers to hijack a handset without a victim’s knowledge. Devices made by Samsung, HTC, LG and ZTE, including those running the latest version of Android, are potentially vulnerable. Check point…
Advanced Data Processing/Intermedix sued over 2012 insider breach
Remember the Advanced Data Processing/Intermedix insider breach of 2012 where a rogue employee provided ambulance patient identity information to others involved in a tax refund fraud scheme? I had covered it on PHIprivacy.net (cf here and here for just two of the posts) and also on this site (cf, this post). In reporting on the breach, one of the…
UPDATE: Russia thought to be behind attack on Pentagon Joint Chief of Staff email system
Courtney Kube and Jim Miklaszewski report: U.S. officials tell NBC News that Russia launched a “sophisticated cyberattack” against the Pentagon’s Joint Staff unclassified email system, which has been shut down and taken offline for nearly two weeks. According to the officials, the “sophisticated cyber intrusion” occurred sometime around July 25 and affected some 4,000 military…